Posted on Jul 19, 2022
Scout from the 'To Kill A Mockingbird' film now plays the racist neighbor onstage
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The latest Broadway incarnation of To Kill A Mockingbird is touring the country, and now the cast includes a familiar face from the old black-and-white movie.
"Isn't this stunning?" marveled 69-year-old Mary Badham, pausing in the lobby of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as the show wrapped up its first leg. (As it happens, John F. Kennedy was president in 1962, when Badham was nominated for an Oscar at 10 for playing Scout, the daughter of Atticus Finch, a white small-town Southern lawyer who defends a Black man accused of rape.)
The latest Broadway incarnation of To Kill A Mockingbird is touring the country, and now the cast includes a familiar face from the old black-and-white movie.
"Isn't this stunning?" marveled 69-year-old Mary Badham, pausing in the lobby of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as the show wrapped up its first leg. (As it happens, John F. Kennedy was president in 1962, when Badham was nominated for an Oscar at 10 for playing Scout, the daughter of Atticus Finch, a white small-town Southern lawyer who defends a Black man accused of rape.)
Scout from the 'To Kill A Mockingbird' film now plays the racist neighbor onstage
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Thank you for sharing this article! It hits home for many reasons. The best one, my nephew, who is a young 30 something, watched the movie in an Alabama middle school. It inspired him to join the debate club in high school, where he excelled, and then later into law school. Today, he is a fine public defender with aspirations of being a judge. He turned down other more lucrative offers to defend folks who otherwise wouldn’t be able to defend themselves. I am so proud of him, words can’t explain it. He is our future. He even named his first born Atticus.
Thank you for sharing this article! It hits home for many reasons. The best one, my nephew, who is a young 30 something, watched the movie in an Alabama middle school. It inspired him to join the debate club in high school, where he excelled, and then later into law school. Today, he is a fine public defender with aspirations of being a judge. He turned down other more lucrative offers to defend folks who otherwise wouldn’t be able to defend themselves. I am so proud of him, words can’t explain it. He is our future. He even named his first born Atticus.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel excellent share. My wife and I watch the movie at least once a year. After having seen it for more years than I want to admit I still see some details I don't remember from the last time I viewed it.
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